Format:
1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Reproduktion Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350125292
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9781350125278
Content:
"Rethinking the relationship between form and history in Irish modernist writing and its aftermath, this book examines how critics have previously categorized the Irish modernist novel, as an evidentiary form of cultural memory. John Greaney exposes the problems with such a stance, exploring this paradox by analysing novels by Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O'Brien, Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien and John McGahern through new critical paradigms in modernist studies. This approach contrasts the untranslatable gap between modernist literature and national history (world literature, translation studies) with materialist approaches to modernism (affect theory, new materialism), and in so doing delineates how Irish modernism becomes both a world problematic as well as a container for national history. As such, The Distance of Irish Modernism demonstrates that modernist fictions, and fictions influenced by the legacies of modernism, are engaged with but different to the cultural memories they supposedly transmit. Constituting new methodologies for understanding how stories are told and memories are formulated in and after Irish modernist writing, this book re-conceptualizes the parameters of Irish modernism."--
Note:
1. Introduction -- 2. Samuel Beckett and ethical witnessing -- 3. Flann O'Brien and the destruction of memory -- 4. Elizabeth Bowen and narrative deferral -- 5. Kate O'Brien and omniscient inheritance -- 6. John McGahern and failed naturalism -- 7. Conclusion.
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Also published in print
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350125261
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350125261
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350125292
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